The Restaurant
Hide opened in April 2018 at 85 Piccadilly, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking directly across to Green Park and the back gardens of Mayfair's eastern edge. The 184-cover building was conceived as three restaurants in one — 'Above' for the higher-end tasting menu, 'Ground' for the all-day a la carte, and 'Below' for the bar and wine cellar — and was originally launched by chef-patron Ollie Dabbous, who had earned the city's most-talked-about Michelin star at his Fitzrovia restaurant Dabbous five years earlier. Dabbous earned Hide its Michelin star within six months of opening; he stepped away in November 2024, and the kitchen is now run by group executive chef Josh Angus, who has retained the star and the room's exacting standards.
The Above tasting menu rotates seasonally and runs eight to twelve courses against a backdrop of pale-oak panelling, hand-blown amber glass pendants, and a tree-trunk spiral staircase that connects all three floors. Signature courses include a chilled English-pea velouté with hand-cured ham, a roasted langoustine with sea-buckthorn-and-bone-marrow, a slow-roasted Hereford ribeye sliced tableside, and the kitchen's signature 'nest of foraged spring herbs' dessert — a sugar-spun nest holding sorrel granita, lemon-thyme custard, and elderflower jelly — that has been on the menu since opening. Ground downstairs runs a more relaxed all-day menu from breakfast through late-night, with a £54 set-lunch that is among the best-value high-end menus in London.
The wine programme is Hide's most-discussed feature: a collaboration with Hedonism Wines of Mayfair that draws on Hedonism's full cellar inventory of more than ten thousand references. The sommelier team — at peak headcount over fifteen — runs a wine-pairing programme that can stretch from a £75 entry-level flight to a £1,500+ tasting of single-vintage Burgundies, with the cellar physically visible from the Below bar. The Hide Below room is regularly booked for wine-led private dinners and is the city's strongest combination of restaurant kitchen and merchant-cellar in one address.
Why This Is London’s Close a Deal Pick
Hide is the right close-a-deal room in central London for three reasons. The three-floor format gives the host a graceful way to escalate the evening — drinks at Below, the main meal at Above, a returning nightcap at Ground — that other Mayfair rooms cannot replicate. The wine programme is deep enough to honour any bottle ambition without forcing a multi-restaurant evening to find the right cellar. And the Piccadilly location with Green Park views is the kind of London-canonical setting that a visiting client recognises without explanation. The two private dining rooms across the building handle deals that require a closed door.
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